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Not only here for the beer: Moravia, the Czech Republic's wine regionhttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/2011/nov/09/czech-republic-wine-moravia-prague
The Czech wine season bursts into life this week, giving our writer the perfect excuse to head to the region of Moravia to sample this year's harvest<p>When parts of Europe quieten in a moment of remembrance at 11am this Friday, in the Czech Republic corks will pop, glasses clink and the country will resound to one collective gulp. For 11 November does not just mark Armistice Day. Here it is also St Martin's Day, and that means something else: the start of the Czech wine season.</p><p>For a country so synonymous with beer, the term &quot;Czech wine season&quot; may strike the casual visitor as a bit odd. I didn't see a glass of wine for the first six months I lived in Prague, so I imagined they just didn't care for the stuff, or it was made in some secret cave my ropey Czech hadn't yet bought me the password for. But it wasn't a cave I was looking for. It was Moravia. Less than 150 miles south-east of the capital, sprawling with quaint villages and hundreds of lush, green vineyards, this is undoubtedly wine country.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2011/nov/09/czech-republic-wine-moravia-prague">Continue reading...</a>Czech RepublicPragueFood and drinkTravelWineFood & drinkEuropeShort breaksBars and clubsWine holidaysWed, 09 Nov 2011 14:17:45 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/2011/nov/09/czech-republic-wine-moravia-praguePRThe Wine Bar, PragueAlamyA vineyard in Moravia, Czech Republic. Photograph: AlamyAlamyA vineyard in Moravia, Czech Republic Photograph: AlamyMark Pickering2011-11-09T14:17:45Z